STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me just interrupt you there. In the last
year in the Budget Control Act, the Congress actually cut $1.5 trillion
in spending. That’s more than was raised in revenue in this last fiscal
cliff deal. So are you saying that any discussion of revenue is
completely off the table going forward? You will not accept any new
revenues in any new deal?

McCONNELL: Yeah, absolutely. The tax issue is behind us. Now the question is, what are we going to do about the real problem?

The National Hockey League and the NHL Players' Association struck a
tentative agreement early Sunday that may end a more-than-100-day
lockout of unionized players, the league said in a statement posted on
its website.

The new agreement reached in New York still must be approved by both the players and owners, the NHL said.

"After a marathon 16-plus
hour negotiating session at the Sofitel Hotel that began Saturday
afternoon, the sides announced an agreement in principle shortly after 5
a.m. Sunday," the league said.

Some players had a
"crucial role in the final stages" of reaching the agreement, the union
said. "Players in the room early Sunday for the announcement were: Craig
Adams, Chris Campoli, Mathieu Darche, Shane Doan, Andrew Ference, Ron
Hainsey, Jamal Mayers and George Parros," the players association said.

A shortened season would at least mean we'd get to see hockey this year, but as I said earlier, two crippling lockouts in eight years means I've got no real incentive to go to any games and make the drive to Columbus, let alone Pittsburgh, Detroit, St. Louis or Chicago...and remember, it's still not even a done deal.

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With Republicans controlling the House and Senate and the Trump Regime now in charge of the Executive, there's still a crumbling global economy imperiling the world, rising nationalism and deadly racism across Europe and Asia, a seemingly endless war against terror, a federal government nobody trusts or believes in, global climate change putting us on the brink of destruction and a Village media that barely does its job on even the best day.

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